Last night, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores held court in the E.D. Walker Middle School auditorium, where some 100 district parents bundled up to hear Flores talk about the coming budget cuts thanks to the state’s shortfall. (If the district is serious about saving money, maybe it ought…
Along with a handful of other media outlets that filed open records requests about the incident at Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s home near Cedar Crest Golf Course known as the “Arthur and Archie” ordeal, we asked for notes, audio, video and any other possible documents related to the case. However, as…
More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place — the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had its exhibit during the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936. But aside…
As you’re no doubt aware, Lisa Stone disappeared last June — and, still, Dallas Police have no idea what has become of the 52-year-old Mesquite High School graduate, whose friends (Facebook and otherwise) continue to search for answers. Some of those friends appeared on CBS’s The Early Show this morning,…
Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the company’s 53rd season of shows today, and it includes a couple of giant productions — including Giant, the much-anticipated new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (book by Sybille Pearson) based on the 1952 Edna Ferber novel. The season features four regional…
Late Wednesday, we received in the in-box this list of 25 cities ranked by the average amount of credit-card debt its residents carryin their back pockets. At the top of the pops was San Antonio with $5,177, but, as you can see, Dallas wasn’t far behind at No. 5; says…
To follow up this morning’s item on Project Pegasus, which has been all but left for dead on the side of the Mixmaster …I spoke earlier today with Bill Hale, P.E., the district engineer for the Dallas District of the Texas Department of Transportation, and he said that, yup, “based…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway and 11 current and former council members endorsed council member Ron Natinksy for mayor this afternoon at City Hall Plaza. Caraway urged voters, especially those in the southern sector, to choose Natinsky instead of David Kunkle or Mike Rawlings because the city is already headed in the…
Never could find the time to take that tour of the old LTV Tower today, but as promised in yesterday’s Statler-tour item, Angela Hunt did indeed stroll the future Grand Ricchi yesterday with developer Leobardo Trevino. She just posted a series of photos showing that 1600 Pacific has indeed been…
As he explained to us a couple weeks ago, Chad Lasseter has some grand ideas, including moving the Texas Rangers to either Fair Park or West Dallas and providing free Wi-Fi downtown. He also disagrees with District 14 council member Angela Hunt on a handful of issues, such as her…
Fired up over the very real chance that nearly half the teachers at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts could be let go, senior Korey Elizabeth Parker paced the Wyly Theater stage last night, letting the crowd know that in the coming budget battle, she…
It was different in 1987 because it was the players striking, not the owners locking out. But still, it’s always ugly in America without football. And 24 years ago was no different. Any guesses to who Peter Jennings’ “Person of the Week” might have been?…
The city sent word a little while ago: Beginning at 6 a.m. Saturday, the Dallas City Marshal’s Office will conduct yet another warrant roundup of “individuals with outstanding arrest warrants for unpaid traffic and non-traffic citations.” Happens every spring. If you’re so inclined, you can browse the motherlovin’ mammoth list…
The Trammell Crow Center on Ross Avenue already contains the Crow Collection of Asian Art. But that’s an inside attraction. And that, far as the Crows are concerned, just isn’t good enough. Hence, the announcement that just popped up in the in-box for the Crow Asian Sculpture Garden, described in…
10. Barring a last-minute agreement, the NFL will cease operations as we know them tonight at 11 when the league’s current collective bargaining agreement expires. The owners and players have met via mediation the last nine days with no significant movement. The owners, dealt a significant blow this week when a…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word: This morning, FBI agents arrested John David McAllister, a sergeant with the Mesquite Police Department — and the head of its four-man Narcotics Unit. Says the release, back in December the feds got a tip that McAllister was skimming off the top during…
Good Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our rapt attention to yesterday’s installment of Paul Lukas’s UniWatch, which provides a rare glimpse into the inaugural 1960 season of Lamar Hunt’s Dallas Texans. Long story short: Bob Halford, the Texans’ PR man, loaned a longtime UniWatch-er named Billy Quinton his Mayo…
Last week, the Dallas Police Department used its Facebook page to show dash-cam footage from January 27 in which Officer Quaitemes Williams is seen kicking and pepper-spraying Rodarick Lyles, who’d been pulled over by another officer for driving with a suspended license. Williams, as you no doubt recall, was fired…
From time to time, Friends of Unfair Park ask about the status of Project Pegasus, which is — or was — “intended to transform the two major Interstate Highways directly serving Downtown Dallas, by totally redesigning IH 30 from Sylvan Avenue to IH 45, and IH 35E from Eighth Street…
Don’t get too giddy if and when the Dallas Mavericks sign free-agent forward Corey Brewer today. Decent player at both ends of the court, but it’s basically one more attempt to fill in the gaps left by the absence of Caron Butler. Maybe with the additions of Peja Stojakovic, Roddy Beaubois…
Jerry Jones re-surfaced last week, but we barely recognized him. No, not another facelift. But he did look—and sound—different. Getting run over in the middle of the highway by the humble Hummer will do that to you. As Jones spoke to the media at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis,…
Piper McCraw received her grand jury summons with just a day’s notice. She didn’t have to travel far to answer it considering her job was in the same building, the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney. The vaguely neoclassical hulk with its columned entry and glass rotunda was only two years…
